President Trump dismissed questions about Sen. Elizabeth Warren releasing a DNA test which appeared to confirm she has Native American decendents.

President Trump took to Twitter to taunt Sen. Elizabeth Warren, referring to her as “the bad version” of “Pocahontas,” a day after she released a DNA test to confirm her Native American ancestry.

“She took a bogus DNA test and it showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American. Now Cherokee Nation denies her, ‘DNA Test is useless.’ Even they don’t want her. Phony!” the President tweeted Tuesday morning.

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“Now that her claims of Indian heritage have turned out to be a scam and a lie, Elizabeth Warren should apologize for perpetrating this fraud against the American Public. Harvard called her ‘a person of color’ (amazing con,) and would not have taken her otherwise!”

Warren on Monday released a DNA test — conducted by Stanford University professor Carlos Bustamante, a genetics and genomics expert — that revealed “strong evidence” that her “DNA sample of primarily European descent also contains Native American ancestry from an ancestor in the sample’s pedigree 6-10 generations ago,” according to the test’s executive summary.

Still, the Cherokee nation rejected the release of the results in a blistering statement that accused Warren of “undermining her tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”

“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North Or South America,” Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said.

“Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation.”

Trump on Tuesday also tweeted his thanks to the “Cherokee Nation for revealing that Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is complete and total Fraud!”

The genetic analysis report released by Warren does concede that because there are few samples available from the majority of North American groups, the Senator’s DNA was tested against samples from Peru, Mexico and Columbia. According to the report, most North American groups in the United States have declined to participate in recent studies.

Warren, 69, has previously claimed she was told growing up that she was part Cherokee. Her ancestry had long been a subject of controversy, with critics accusing the Massachusetts Democrat of claiming to be a minority in order to further her career.

Trump seized on the matter throughout his campaign, mocking her claims of Native American ties with the nickname “Pocahontas.” During a speech in July, the President said he would pay $1 million to Warren’s favorite charity if she were to “take the test and it shows you’re Indian.”

The President on Monday however, claimed he “didn’t say” he would offer a donation in exchange for Warren to take a test shortly after she released the results.

“Who cares?” Trump said when asked about the DNA test. By the afternoon, he changed course — offering only to make the donation should he able to “test her personally.”

Warren dismissed Trump’s revised proposal as “creepy” and slammed him for his ongoing attacks against her.

“He’s scared. he’s trying to do what he always does to women who scare him: call us names, attack us personally, shrink us down to feel better about himself,” she tweeted.

“It may soothe his ego — but it won’t work.”

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She also added that her “heritage played no role in my hiring — ever. The Boston Globe reviewed all the evidence. Their verdict? ‘At every step of her remarkable rise in the legal profession, the people responsible for hiring her saw her as a white woman.’”